Wilderness Survival Skills School

On July 17, 2005, I went to Wilderness Learning Centers week long wilderness survival skills school and had a great time. I met some fun and interesting people and learned and practiced many new outdoor survival skills. We covered all the topics I expected and more including: fire, shelter, water, navigation, survival kits and trapping. It was a very busy week and we seldom stopped learning and applying the survival skills we learned. Not being much of a photographer, I often forgot to take pictures and many of the pictures didn’t come out on my disposable camera. Here is what did come out.

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John Gibbons, the chief instructor	Marty Simon and me	Bucket full of cedar bark
Birch bark container	Three tiered water filter	Water transpiration bag
Making a container	A solar still	A survival shelter
Building a survival shelter	Reading wild edible plant book	Figure 4 deadfall trap
The fire bow	The whole gang	John, Marty and me
Shadow box for finding direction